murderer
pronunciation
How to pronounce murderer in British English:
UK [ˈmɜːdərə(r)]
How to pronounce murderer in American English:
US [ˈmɜːrdərər]
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- Noun:
- a criminal who commits homicide (who performs the unlawful premeditated killing of another human being)
Word Origin
- murderer (n.)
- mid-14c., alteration of murtherer (c. 1300), agent noun from murder (v.); in part from Old French mordrere, from Medieval Latin murdrarius, from Germanic. Old English words for this included morðorcwalu, morðorslaga, morðorwyrhta, literally "murder-wright." The original murderer's row was in New York City's Tombs prison; figurative use in baseball dates to 1858, though the quintessential one was the 1927 New York Yankees. Fem. form murderess attested from late 14c. Murderee (1920) never caught on.
Example
- 1. The police are searching the hotel for the murderer .
- 2. Very few british people would praise a murderer and sell him weapons .
- 3. It damns the murderer while recognising that , sometimes , even murder is justified .
- 4. I could see the marks of fingers on his neck-the murderer had strangled him .
- 5. And saw the marks of the murderer 's fingers on her neck .